Improvement in cooking-stoves



ist /irtrt VDANIEL E. PARIS, 0F TROY, NEW YORK.

Letters Patent No. 113,790, dated April 18, 1871.

IMPROVEMENT IN COOKING-STQVES.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the unie.

To all whom it may concern y Be it known that 1, DANIEL E. Panis, of the city of Troy, in the county of Rensselaer' and State of New York, have inventedv new and useful Improvements in Top-Reservoirs for Cooking-Stoves; audl do hereby declare that the following is a clear and accurate description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawing and to letters of rei'- ereuce marked thereon, like letters representing like parts, in which- Figure 1 is a vertical side viewrtaken through the center, front to rear.

Figure 2 is a vertical rear view taken through A B Figure is a perspective front and end view of the reservoir attached to the stove top in its position siti ting over the pipecollar; showing also the manner oi' attaching it to the stove top by means of the ears or lugsEF cast ou the two front corners ot' the reservoir.

Figure 4 is the movable center piece to the reservoir, which `is seen again at Din fig. 3 this is attached to the reservoirby means ot' a bolt at N; and

Figure 6is a diEerent form or shape ofl the same piece', which difference s hereinafter explained.

Figure 5 is a vertical sectional View, the same as iig. 1, exceptit has the movable piece on the front which isrshown in fig. 6, and'which, being straight, brings the reservoir furtherito' the front of the stove.

Figure 7 is a perspective rear, end, and bottom view, with the baok'ilue-piece secn in Figure 8 removed, but the posit-ion oi' which is shown by the dotted lines B.

It will be seen that this reservoir is similar to a former invention of nxine, but differs in two very irnportan-t particulars, without which the invention is almost useless.

This reservoir is Vdesigned to -be applied or attached to common plain-top stoves, and the two most iinportant particulars in which this differs from my former invention are designed to facilitate and improve the modeof adjusting and attaching the reservoir to a common plain-top stove, and they/,consist in` First, the movable graduating piece or pieces D D,

` seen in gs. 4.- and (5, this to assist in adjusting it to the stove; and

, Second, the lugs F F, cast on the lower front part of the reservoir, these to improve the mode oi' attaching the reserioir to the stove.

I have improved the reservoir iu two other important particulars: i v

First, in depressing thecentral'raised portion of the bottom E E, at the front side of the reservoir at S S, figs. 1 and 5, so that the water may connect and iiow iiom side to side, ihr itvoften happens that only one side of a reservoir can be got at in use, and it almost always happens that one side is far more convenient portant that the water iow from side to side as it is used out of the reservoir, and itis thus done without materially reducing the size of the iiue L L.

And again, I have improved the back tine-piece B, seen in iig. 8, by graduating its length on the bottom or horizontal part O to correspond with the piece used in front. Thus the horizontal bottom or foot-part O is longer in iig, 1 than in tig. 5, for the reason that as the curved front piece D throws the reservoir further back, so-the' length of the foot-piece G must be proportionately increased in length, so that it will reach and make close connection with the rear part of the stove top R.

The object and simplicity of the lugs Ii F, seen iu fig. 3, are apparent without further description than simply` to say that they arecast solid with the reser voirs, (which I usually make of cast-iron;) but these lugs, as they arecast on the smaller or bottom part of the reservoir, and therefore drawn with the cope in casting, must bemadc separate from the reservoir ltsell' iu the pattern. i

These`lugs are cast on the front, or, if on the ends oft-he reservoir, they should be near to the front corner, and sufficiently far apart, so that the bolts that pass through them and hold the reservoir to the stove top 1t will go through the latter outside of the jamh or side-plate of the stove. Thus, if the stove top has holes already cast to receive the reservoir, it will not -injure the operation of thelstove when used with- .out the reservoir, because these holes will be outside ol' the jalnb, so as to leave no opening into the line or lines, Thus the reservoir can-be taken oi after once attached to a stove, and the stove used just as well without it.

The curved and straight pieces D D, figs. 4 and 6, are used as follows:

When the back boiler-holes G G, seen in fig. 3, are near to the front side ofthe pipe-collar, then the curved piece seen in fig. l must be used; but whenthey are one and one-half or two inches distant, (which iu. ordinary stoves does not often happen, however,) then the straight piece may and should be used; but if the straight piece, seen in iig. 6, were used on a stove where the rear line of the rear boiler-holes G G was Y within a half inch of the front side of the pipe-collar, (as is often the case,) then the rear boiler-holes would be rendered useless, because the front upright side ot' the reservoir would be so near to the boiler-holes that an ordinary-pot or kettle could not be set over them, because the bulged or projecting part of the kettle or pot projects from one and one-quarter to one and three-quarters inch all around.

`For this reason my former invention was greatly deficient, because, as the front of the reservoir was all cast or made solid and straight, it could only be used on certain stoves.

It was found, also, that the mode of fastening the reservoir to the stove top was `equally imperfect, as that mode of fastening through the pipe-eollar eould be used only when a certain amount of/room could be had below the collar; but the mode of fastening the reservoir here shown does not depend on any accident or good luck, for itis readily bolted to any stove top, and, by means of the graduating piece or pieces D D in front of the reservoir, I am enabled to fit the reservoir to any ordinary stove, it matters not where the pipe-collar may be located as regards the rear boilerholes of the stove.

The way in which or by which the reservoir is heated and its position as regards the rear and top ues of the stove I and K may not only be seen by thedrawing and the arrowin g. 1, but this was fully explained iu my former patent.

I may add that the mode of casting the reservoir with the piece D made separate or movable is a valuable invention of itself; for if it is cast solid with the reservoir it has to be so thick at the top in order to mold good that it draws .the iron from the other parts of the reservoir, so that they will not east even, and in cooling, the larger body of metal cooling more slowly, is apt to crack the vessel; and even if it could tlxe movable piece D, or its equivalent, substantially as and for the purpose herein set forth and explained.

with a water-reservoir, at or near its lower bottom edge, when the reservoir is made larger at the top than at the bottom, substantially as and for the purpose herein shown and described.

3. The back flue-piene IB, with its adjustable foot piece O, in combination with the movable front-piece D, made for the purpose and substantially in the manner herein set forth and explained.

i DANL. E. PARIS.

f, Witnesses:

CHARLES EDDY, WM. D. HnnoN,

1. A reservoir for cookingstoves, constructed with 2. The lugs F F, or their equivalent, cast solid 

